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  • aliendn0

    more zappa:

    The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

    -Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

    Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

    The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced

    Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

    Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

    Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

    Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
    FZ: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"

    One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

    You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

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